Paul Gottlieb

Kenmore Air Express

Port of Port Angeles: ‘We will search for another air carrier’

PORT ANGELES — Kenmore Air Express will stop providing the only scheduled commercial air passenger service on the North Olympic Peninsula on Nov. 15. Kenmore… Continue reading

Kenmore Air Express
Kenneth Johnson enters the courtroom during his arraignment on Friday in Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

December trial set for sex offender after high-speed chase

PORT ANGELES — Kenneth S. “Tiny” Johnson will face a Dec. 14 trial on charges of robbery, eluding police and theft of two vehicles after… Continue reading

Kenneth Johnson enters the courtroom during his arraignment on Friday in Clallam County Superior Court in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Equipment sits idle at the Green Creek Wood Products location in the Eclipse Industrial Park on the west edge of Port Angeles on Thursday. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Green Creek Wood Products in Port Angeles set to shut down for good Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Beset by market pressures and not enough logs, Green Creek Wood Products LLC will close the company, including its recently modernized Port… Continue reading

Equipment sits idle at the Green Creek Wood Products location in the Eclipse Industrial Park on the west edge of Port Angeles on Thursday. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Equipment sits idle at the Green Creek Wood Products location in the Eclipse Industrial Park on the west edge of Port Angeles on Thursday. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Green Creek Wood Products in Port Angeles set to shut down for good Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Beset by market pressures and not enough logs, Green Creek Wood Products LLC will close the company, including its recently modernized Port… Continue reading

Equipment sits idle at the Green Creek Wood Products location in the Eclipse Industrial Park on the west edge of Port Angeles on Thursday. — Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Dane Duben

Carlsborg man recalls carjacking at gunpoint by sex offender during police pursuit

CARLSBORG — A man who said his Mazda Miata was carjacked by convicted sex offender Kenneth S. “Tiny” Johnson shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday thought… Continue reading

Dane Duben
Equipment sits idle at the Green Creek Wood Products location in the Eclipse Industrial Park on the west edge of Port Angeles on Thursday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Green Creek Wood Products in Port Angeles set to shut down for good Saturday

PORT ANGELES — Beset by market pressures and not enough logs, Green Creek Wood Products LLC will close the company, including its recently modernized Port… Continue reading

Equipment sits idle at the Green Creek Wood Products location in the Eclipse Industrial Park on the west edge of Port Angeles on Thursday. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Dane Duben

Carlsborg man recalls carjacking at gunpoint by sex offender during police pursuit

CARLSBORG — A man who said his Mazda Miata was carjacked by convicted sex offender Kenneth S. “Tiny” Johnson shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday thought… Continue reading

Dane Duben

Port of Port Angeles reviews proposed 2015 budget; public hearing set for Nov. 13

PORT ANGELES — A 1 percent property tax increase and the addition of one temporary and one permanent position are included in the Port of… Continue reading

Shoona Riggs

ELECTION 2014: Secretary of state stays out of Clallam auditor race

PORT ANGELES — Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman will not investigate the Clallam County Auditor’s Office over auditor candidate Kim Yacklin’s allegations of potential… Continue reading

Shoona Riggs

PA United effort off table, for now, but groups take inspiration from attempt’s framework

PORT ANGELES — The yearlong PA United effort is dead for now, putting on hold an effort that began with three business groups meeting in… Continue reading

Kenneth Johnson at his bond hearing Monday. Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News

‘I have six months to live’ says sex offender arrested after high-speed chase in two counties

PORT ANGELES — Bond of $150,000 was set Monday for convicted child rapist Kenneth S. “Tiny” Johnson, 35, who said at a Clallam County Superior… Continue reading

Kenneth Johnson at his bond hearing Monday. Paul Gottlieb/Peninsula Daily News
Youth football players walk to midfield for the coin toss at Port Angeles Civic Field on Saturday. —Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Being in hot water a good thing for athletes using Civic Field: Port Angeles to purchase new boiler

PORT ANGELES — Civic Field is getting a new boiler that will provide hot water for the first time since 2007 to the hundreds of… Continue reading

Youth football players walk to midfield for the coin toss at Port Angeles Civic Field on Saturday. —Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News
Shoona Riggs

ELECTION 2014: Secretary of state stays out of Clallam auditor race

PORT ANGELES — Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman will not investigate the Clallam County Auditor's Office over auditor candidate Kim Yacklin's allegations of potential… Continue reading

Shoona Riggs
Tony De Leo

ELECTION 2014: Two Jefferson PUD candidates a contrast in style, fundraising

PORT HADLOCK — The two candidates for Jefferson County Public Utility District present a contrast in styles as different as wine is from water, a… Continue reading

Tony De Leo
Russ Veenema

Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce executive director points to 2015 to step down

PORT ANGELES — Russ Veenema is on course to resign at the end of 2015 as executive director of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of… Continue reading

Russ Veenema
Youth football players walk to midfield for the coin toss at Port Angeles Civic Field on Saturday. —Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Being in hot water a good thing for athletes using Civic Field: Port Angeles to purchase new boiler

PORT ANGELES — Civic Field is getting a new boiler that will provide hot water for the first time since 2007 to the hundreds of… Continue reading

Youth football players walk to midfield for the coin toss at Port Angeles Civic Field on Saturday. —Photo by Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

Clallam auditor hopeful makes appeal for investigation of election process that involves opponent

PORT ANGELES — Kim Yacklin, a candidate for Clallam County auditor, has asked the Secretary of State’s Office to investigate the election process that involves… Continue reading

Kenneth Scott “Tiny” Johnson

Convicted child rapist apprehended after two-county pursuit, alleged carjackings

PORT ANGELES — A high-level sex offender was captured on a probable-cause warrant for failing to register after a Saturday morning pursuit that began in… Continue reading

Kenneth Scott “Tiny” Johnson
Russ Veenema

Port Angeles Regional Chamber of Commerce executive director points to 2015 to step down

PORT ANGELES — Russ Veenema is on course to resign at the end of 2015 as executive director of the Port Angeles Regional Chamber of… Continue reading

Russ Veenema

Suicide prevention options eyed for Eighth Street bridges in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — The City Council has set aside time during a Nov. 25 work session to discuss potential suicide prevention measures for the Eighth… Continue reading